Hypocrite
Just the other day there was a question. Somebody has asked - he must be a newcomer and an Indian - he has asked, "Are you not a hypocrite? Why do you live in luxury?"
He does not know the meaning of the word 'hypocrite'. I may be the only person in the world who is not a hypocrite.
A hypocrite is one who says one thing and does another. A hypocrite is one whose inner and outer lives are different - not only different but diametrically opposite. I am not against luxury, so why should I be a hypocrite? I am not against comfort - I am not a masochist, that's all. I don't believe in torturing myself or anybody else. I don't believe in torture.
I would like the whole earth to live in luxury. Certainly, I know that today that is not the case. The whole earth is not even getting the minimum necessities of life. But I am not going to torture myself just because of that, because that is not going to help them either. If there are one thousand people in misery, there will be one thousand and one people in misery - that's all.
I don't believe in misery. And I am not living a double life. My life is very simple - simple in the sense that it has a kind of integrity. I am doing what I am saying. I believe in luxury; to me, religion is the highest form of luxury. If I cannot make everybody live in luxury, at least I can manage to live in it myself. Otherwise people will say to me, "Physician, first heal thyself."
But these so-called godmen, they all live in luxury and they are all against luxury. These are hypocrites! They talk about poverty and the spirituality of poverty, and they all live in luxury - they are hypocrites.
I hate poverty! I don't respect poverty, I don't appreciate poverty. It is out of stupidity that people are poor; it is out of superstitious minds that people are poor. People need not be poor. It is because of thousands of years of teaching that poverty has something spiritual in it that people are poor.
-Osho, "The Dhammapada, Vol 1, #10"